Handkerchief-vending machine



ocr. 1s, 1927.

A. PRQ'Bs-r HANDKERCHIEF VENDIRG MACHINE Filed sept. 2:5, 1925 INYENTDR 019m; PMM.

Patented Oct.` 18, 1927.

UNITED STATES l 1,646,314 PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT PROYBST, 0F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

HANDKERCHIEF-VENDING MACHINE.

Application led September 23, 1925. l Serial'No. 58,095.

My invention relates to improvementsfin vending machines and the objects of my improvement are, first, to provide a machine suitable for vending handkerchiefs, and second, to provide a mechanism therefor simple of construction and sure of operation. I accomplish these ends by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a front elevation of the whole device,

Figure II is a sectional elevation, side View,

Figure III is a plan view of the combined handle and slide, j

Figure IV is a side view of the slide, and

Figure V is a plan view of the coin trigg The magazine 1 carries a stack of cartons, each holding a handkerchief. The bottom carton 2 rests upon a slide which consists of a horizontal elevated portion 3, a lower horizontal portion 4, and a handle portion 5 which carries an aperture large enough to allow the cartons to fall through and which projects beyond the front wall of the vend ing machine.

A spring 6 draws the handle back into the machine after the delivery of each carton. A coin chute 7 leads from the external coin slot 8 diagonally down to the coin trigger 9.

An arm 10 of the slide 4 projects vertically downward, and by striking against a projection 11 on the coin trigger 9 prevents the drawing out of the handle, since said projection 11 is in horizontal alinement with the point of fulcrum 14 of the coin trigger.

When, however, a coin drops from the chute 7 into the coin trigger 9, the weight of t-he coin. overbalances that of the counterpoise 13 and tliecoin trigger drops to the position indicated by the dotted lines. A pull on the handle 5 now withdraws the bottom carton from the stack, and the next carton above drops down upon the platform 3. A't the same time the vertical arm 10 follows the projection 11 onthe coin trigger and pushes it back to the third positionindicated by dotted lines, in which position the coin rolls out and drops into the bottom compartment of the vending machine.v

Since the platform 3 is elevated above the level of portion 4 by only about one half the Width of a cartonany carton which falls upon it will always be low enough to prevent the return of` ai package which has been pulled out into the forward compartment of the vending machine. i

As the handle 5 is released, the spring 6 draws the slide back to its original'position, whereupon the carton 2 drops thru the opening in the handle, the platform 3 slides out from under the next carton and it falls into the original position of carton 2, and the coin trigger 9 swings into its original position beneath the coinchute 7, and locks the slide until another coin is inserted.

After dropping through the aperture in 'the handle, the package slides down to an eX- ternal opening 17 -at the bottom of the ma-V chine. A glass window 18 assures the cus- `tomer that there is a supply of handkerchiefs 'in the vending machine, and also informs him as to the nature of the contents. j

I claim: 1. A coin controlled locking means for a reciprocating ejector comprising arecep'tacle, a counterpoise for said receptacle, a lever arm connecting said receptacle and lsaid counterpoise, said lever having aI right angle bend between its point of fulcrum and said counterpoise so constructed as to prevent the lever from swinging clear overleven though itshould pass the vertical position, a reciprocating ejector adjacent to said receptacle,

anda means on said ejector .to engage "an extension on said receptacle.

2. In a handkerchief vending machine, a coin controlled locking means for a recipro-k cating ejector comprising a coin receptacle,

said coin receptacle having an extension, a vreciprocating ejector adjacent to said receptacle and having a vertical arm to engage the extension upon `said coin receptacle, a

counterpoise for said receptacle suiciently pushed said receptacle into `such a tilted position as to cause the discharge of the` coin, and a coin compartment beneath said receptacle.

In testimony whereof, I hereby affix my signature. l

ALBERT rRoBsT. A j

ino upon said .reciprocating ejector has followed i 'the extension upon said coin receptacle and 

